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Ben & Jerry’s has graduated from Schweddy Balls and other ice cream flavors to a brand new line of icy sweets: Greek frozen yogurt. The Vermont company revealed four new flavors – strawberry shortcake, raspberry fudge chunk, banana peanut butter and blueberry vanilla graham. The new product will be available nationwide in $4.39 pints as well as $1.29 mini-cup sizes for certain flavors. Greek yogurt differs from standard yogurts in that more whey is strained out, leaving a thicker, creamier texture with more protein but fewer calories. Customers – mostly educated, high-income women – are devoted to the yogurt because it is perceived to be more filling than a...

The pornographic exploits of "Ben & Cherry" in titles such as “Boston Cream Thighs,” “Peanut Butter D-Cups” and “Chocolate Fudge Babes” will temporarily simmer down following a court order won by similarly named ice cream maker Ben &...

"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical that debuted earlier this year at the La Jolla Playhouse, has set a March opening on Broadway. The folksy production, about a group of people competing to win a new truck, is set to officially open at...

Seminal jam band Phish have announced that tickets for Super Ball IX, the latest in a long chain of legendary weekend blowouts, are going on sale April 4. The band’s ninth festival (and first Fourth of July bash) will take ...

Though they’ve built much of their reputation on being a free-wheeling pack of multi-disciplined jam artists, the Chicago-based six-piece Umphrey’s McGee hit us with a deft change of pace this week, days before the release of their forthcoming album “Death By

Trey Anastasio, the frontman for the band Phish, is teaming up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a one-night only concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The performance, scheduled for Mar. 10, will feature "orchestrations of classic Phish tunes and solo Anas

A look ahead at the spring theater season in Southern Calfornia: Trucks have never really been my thing, but of the upcoming new musicals this season, I’m most curious about “Hands on a Hardbody,” the Doug Wright-Trey Anastasio-Amanda Green collaboration at La

When Elton John stopped in Los Angeles this month on his latest concert tour, he came in with one of the biggest storehouses of hits in pop music history. But instead of diving headlong into his catalog, he and his old friend Leon Russell devoted the...

NOTE: This is a blog about two guys attempting to lose weight over a six-week period. They kicked off their weight loss "strategies" on Jan. 10.
Even though we've been writing these blog entries for two weeks now, clearly stating...

A prosecutor in the city of Mansoura is investigating 23 suspects accused of laundering money and stealing more than $26 million from U.S. banks through Internet piracy. The defendants were arrested recently in cooperation with FBI agents, who had been ...

This coming weekend, Coachella Valley will witness a locust-like descent from a 40,000-strong horde of hippies, a scale unseen in the Golden State since at the very least, last weekendâs 40th Celebration of Woodstock in Golden Gate Park (a murky ...

The band's three-day Halloween weekend blowout leaves its loyal legion of fans heated up and happy. Besides the Rolling Stones, U2 and Bruce Springsteen, it's hard to think of many rock acts that could crowd the Empire Polo Club in ...

For now, Playback, the year-old eco-clothing company based in Brooklyn, may have only a couple of shirt styles for sale, but bands including U2, Phish and Wilco have already signed up to use their blanks for merchandise. And like American Apparel, which made i

Entrepreneur and computer engineer John Lee, in Sonoma, Calif., thinks the medical marijuana business has reached a tipping point in terms of its social (and legal) acceptance, and his 5-month-old start-up, PlainView Systems, wants to be the Amazon.com of the